• @dhork@lemmy.world
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    19010 months ago

    Republicans understand that demographics are against them, and their only chance is to whip their base into a froth while simultaneously making it harder for Others to vote.

    • stevedidWHAT
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      8010 months ago

      Ding ding ding

      Just like it is every election season. Republicans rely on the electoral vote, propaganda, and systematic diseducation (idk if that’s even a word, case in point?) to ensure victories over the populace

      • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        “Education” is from Latin “educ” which means “lead out”. The reverse would be to lead in, which is “ducere in”. So if you want to make a new but old-fashioned word, I suggest “ducereination” or because the “e-i”" syllables are uncomfortable to say and would have likely been dropped over time, “ducerination”. The “c” might be pronounced as an “s” or as a “k” depending on how the word would have evolved since ancient times, but I prefer a “k” sound (which I think is the wrong one according to Google) so it sounds like the “c” in “education”.

        Note that I don’t know Latin.

        • Skua
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          1310 months ago

          I don’t know a goddamn thing about Latin grammar, but it looks like you could follow the etymology of “education” more closely. The “educ” part is itself derived from “ex ducere”, so we could probably have “inducation”

          • Promethiel
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            3610 months ago

            Y’all. Did you have your coffees this morning?

            There’s already an organically evolved etymologically rich word for the “passing of closed thinking”, that harkens back to “leading in” or Inducing…

            Indoctrination.

            • n1ckn4m3
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              110 months ago

              Yeah, but the right only agree that indoctrination exists when it’s colleges indoctrinating people into free-thought which they call being woke. Say that word to them and they’ll be like “rubber, glue, you” because that’s about as many syllables as the average right-winger can muster, and about as intelligent a complete thought as I expect from them as well.

              • @kautau@lemmy.world
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                710 months ago

                I guarantee you they’ll feel the same way if you say ducerination or inducation. Words they don’t understand are inherently an attack, just like woke, which originally meant someone or something that was championing the rights of people in modern times

                • stevedidWHAT
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                  110 months ago

                  Probably because so many people make fun of their education system

                  Why be angry with the root cause of your problem when you have so many branches that look close enough to a root

                  • @kautau@lemmy.world
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                    310 months ago

                    Which is the goal. Defund public education. Fund private education. Both for profit but also to ensure that only the wealthy can actually pay for a “good” education and keep up the class divide

        • Riskable
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          210 months ago

          Misinformation: Untrue or misleading information. Anyone can fall victim to it. Even the smartest among us can be misinformed.

          Disinformation: Intentionally untrue or misleading information. This is information that is targeted towards people who are most likely to fall victim to it: Suckers

          If you’re watching a show/video and the advertisements are mostly bullshit things like supplements, (legal) drugs, and/or weight loss products the show/video you’re watching is made for suckers. The folks selling these things know their marks.

        • stevedidWHAT
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          110 months ago

          See I didn’t like how that one fit, and it’s not that they’re outright feeding bad information (some are, sure) but that they withhold that info (I.e. banning books, taking whole curriculums straight up out (black history, us military history as related to global behavior in and out of war), etc